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Securing a Go Web Application

In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:

Creating a private key and SSL certificate using OpenSSL
Moving an HTTP server to HTTPS
Defining REST APIs and routes
Creating a JSON web token
Securing a RESTful service using a JSON web token
Preventing cross-site request forgery in Go web applications

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